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Please excuse this post as part of a larger existential crisis I am going through. I've read alot of V.S. Ramachandran and it has made me really interested in Neurology. I'm only an (O)MS I so this is probably premature to be wondering about this sort of thing but I'm trying to use the thought of a residency to provide motivation for improving my mediocre grades.
So I was wondering about Neuro. It seems really cool because the brain is the last frontier of medicine. However, its also an organ that gives the impression of being next to impossible to meaningfully fix without massive Neurosurg-type cutting. It seems to have a rep for spending most of your career telling stroke patients what is wrong with them and then Rxing them aspirin.
So why is neuro nifty cool? It must be that y'all want to spend your careers in it. What are the perks? What are the problems? What is the primary export of Poland? (Polish sausage? Seems logical....) These are the questions on my mind. Residency seems like an evil creation. I worked my ass off to get to medical school and now I have to jump through more hoops and distinguish myself again because I don't think I'll be interested in primary care unless its EM. So right now holding off the existential dread is the idea of playing with people's brains for a living. Tell me what its like....
-Bill Brasky
"Third: Brasky got his wife pregnant and she gave birth to a delicious 16 oz. steak.
Second: The afterbirth was sautéed mushrooms.
First: Brasky's family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong.
Third: Brasky is ranked 18th in the AP College Football poll.
Second: To Bill Brasky.
Together: Bill Brasky! "
So I was wondering about Neuro. It seems really cool because the brain is the last frontier of medicine. However, its also an organ that gives the impression of being next to impossible to meaningfully fix without massive Neurosurg-type cutting. It seems to have a rep for spending most of your career telling stroke patients what is wrong with them and then Rxing them aspirin.
So why is neuro nifty cool? It must be that y'all want to spend your careers in it. What are the perks? What are the problems? What is the primary export of Poland? (Polish sausage? Seems logical....) These are the questions on my mind. Residency seems like an evil creation. I worked my ass off to get to medical school and now I have to jump through more hoops and distinguish myself again because I don't think I'll be interested in primary care unless its EM. So right now holding off the existential dread is the idea of playing with people's brains for a living. Tell me what its like....
-Bill Brasky
"Third: Brasky got his wife pregnant and she gave birth to a delicious 16 oz. steak.
Second: The afterbirth was sautéed mushrooms.
First: Brasky's family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong.
Third: Brasky is ranked 18th in the AP College Football poll.
Second: To Bill Brasky.
Together: Bill Brasky! "